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Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: Knightley makes a lovely lover for Carl. If Sabina is a vampire, then she's Edward Cullen, the creature who knows too much, to his Bella Swan, naive but game for a toxic twilight romp. Read more
Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: The harder you look at it, the wilder, and more disturbing, and more moving, it becomes. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: "A Dangerous Method" is full of ideas about sexuality - some quite provocative, even a century after their first articulation - but it also recognizes and communicates the erotic power of ideas. Read more
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: If the movie falls just shy of our highest mark, this is because Cronenberg is tamping down on his usually naturalistic performances -- everything feels vaguely mad-scientist-ish. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Mr. Fassbender is entirely persuasive, not to mention extremely attractive, and Mr. Mortensen is intriguingly nuanced. Read more
Scott Bowles, USA Today: As a biographical film, Method gives real insight to its subjects, especially Jung. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: It might feel almost too quiet, if not for Knightley's manic, borderline-over-the-top depiction of mental illness; she's unafraid to deploy an almost comic, grimacing underbite and a desperate, unfettered sense of panic. Read more
Keith Phipps, AV Club: Cronenberg has made a wholly satisfying case study, but not quite enough of a movie. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Whatever the elements, Cronenberg has made a good movie from them, with outstanding performances by Michael Fassbender and Viggo Mortensen. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: "A Dangerous Method'' begins where other films hope to culminate. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: This is a movie with too much talk and not enough sensation. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: A satisfying drama of historical speculation, substantially researched and shrewdly dramatized... Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Knightley's performance calms down eventually, and a good thing, too. If she maintained that early pace, she would have burned up the couch and herself along with it. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: A Dangerous Method is well cast with Michael Fassbender as a pent-up Jung and Viggo Mortensen as Freud. Keira Knightley​ inhabits the fits and fury of Spielrein. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: The true story is extraordinary; the film is not, although the actors are all fine. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: Precise, lucid and thrillingly disciplined, this story of boundary-testing in the early days of psychoanalysis is brought to vivid life by the outstanding lead performances of Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: It's fascinating to see the exceptionally charismatic Fassbender squeeze himself into the role of the aristocratic, restrained Jung, and it's just as enjoyable to see Mortensen bring an unexpected virility to his sybaritic, cigar-chomping Freud. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Like every director, Cronenberg has made boring movies before (M. Butterfly, Naked Lunch), but he's never made one this crushingly dull and anonymous. Read more
David Thomson, The New Republic: It makes for an absorbing drama and leaves the mustiness of cigars in the theatre. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Most of this talky film just feels like a debate between two experts, trying to answer a question few of us had asked. When the real question is, Where's David Cronenberg? Read more
Mark Jenkins, NPR: A Dangerous Method didn't have to be another Naked Lunch, but Freud plus Jung plus Cronenburg should have equaled something a little more dissonant and troubling. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: The only truly dangerous element here belongs to Keira Knightley, who dares to offer the most off-putting performance of the year. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: "A Dangerous Method'' presents a vivid portrait of pre-World War I Europe that's at a considerable remove from the types of madness usually seen in Cronenberg's films. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: As Freud, who believes the basis of all insanity is sexual repression, and Jung, who is monogamous and resistant to such extremist views, the miscast male stars are bland as dust and look like a box of Smith Brothers cough drops. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: This is a freaky thing to behold: Knightley's wildly physical rendering of a mentally unbalanced soul. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Using a dialogue-heavy approach that's unusual for Cronenberg, his film is skilled at the way it weaves theory with the inner lives of its characters. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: The actors give it their all, especially Knightley, whose jaw- jutting, heavily accented and unfairly criticized portrayal gives this erotic mind-bender its fighting spirit. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: It's a handsome and stimulating film, noteworthy more for its terrific acting and provocative ideas than for any kind of dark Cronenbergundian genius. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: When at one point Jung spanks his patient, you may completely miss the erotic content and simply think what I thought - that somebody, finally, was punishing Knightley for this performance. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: Spitting and stammering, clawing and convulsing, her jaw jutting forward and her eyes popping out of her head, Keira Knightley is a frightening force of nature in A Dangerous Method. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: It's a fiercely thoughtful film, a movie of ideas that understands how powerful ideas can be. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Pivots as much on political gamesmanship and intellectual dominance as sadomasochistic urges and infidelity. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Like psychoanalysis, "A Dangerous Method" takes its time as it circles an opening to unexplored depths. Read more
Robert Levin, The Atlantic: It's a smart study of the root causes of destructive human behavior, but there's a flat quality to the dark impulses on display. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: A Dangerous Method is a suave chamber piece: a series of glimpses of two 20th-century intellectual titans, in friendship and separation, and the story of a remarkable woman who history had swallowed up, brought into the light again. Read more
Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and a prestige piece is just a well-intentioned bore. Read more
Dave Calhoun, Time Out: Knightley gives a fair performance but lumbers herself with a distracting accent, and her gurning in the early scenes may be too much for some to bear. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Cronenberg has reached the stage of his career where he doesn't feel it necessary to pander to expectations. Instead he seeks to engage us, and he succeeds. Read more
Justin Chang, Variety: David Cronenberg's career-long fascination with matters of the mind manifests itself in compelling but determinedly non-mind-bending fashion. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: As cataclysmic as it is, this historically scrupulous science-fiction romance concerning the discovery of the unconscious mind might have been titled War of the Worlds or The Beast From 5,000 Fathoms. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Perhaps Cronenberg's most transgressive movie yet, one in which ideas - rather than their fetishistic signifiers - possess more energy and verve than the most calculated shock effect. Read more